The Buyback Letter was named to The Hulbert 2017-2018 Investment Newsletter Honor Roll. This is the eighth year in a row The Buyback Letter had been honored for this! There were only 7 that made the Honor Roll. To be in this select group, a newsletter must exhibit above-average performance in both up AND down markets.

As Hulbert advises, “The key to long-term success is actually following a strategy through thick and thin.”

"David Fried's Buyback Letter is one of the best in the business. He makes money for subscribers year-in and year-out, in up and down markets, with honesty, integrity and consistency." - Jeffrey A. Hirsch, Stock Trader's Almanac

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Buyback
Track Record

My buyback stocks rock!

My buyback investment strategy has consistently beaten the market, from the bull market of the 1990s through the ensuing bear market and its subsequent recovery, followed by the current see-sawing market. Whether the market is bullish, bearish or flat, solid or wobbly, my portfolios beat their benchmarks.

The research is behind me. A major study of the stock market over a 20-year time period found that in each four-year period, value buyback stocks – buyback stocks with high book-to-market ratios — generated returns 388% higher than other stocks. The financial difference Buyback Stocks make for your bottom line is tremendous.

In a recent 10-year period of a raging bull market, if you had invested $10,000 in a typical S&P 500 portfolio, your investment would have grown to $67,917. That’s an excellent return, but the same $10,000 invested exclusively in value buyback stocks would have grown to $130,254. That’s nearly $70,000 more in profits, double what you received from a typical S&P 500 portfolio. And that’s just returns from an average value buyback stock portfolio. Over half have done even better, sometimes much better.

I am proud that as of January 31, 2018, all five of my model portfolios have substantially beaten the market since inception. For instance:

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Portfolio

Inception
Date

Since
Inception

Since
Inception

Outperformance

5-Stock
Buyback Dogs:

Mar-97

514.57%

S&P 500 252.09%

262.48%

Buyback
Income Index:

Mar-97

888.08%

S&P 500 252.09%

635.99%

20-Stock
Buyback Index:

Mar-97

873.52%

S&P 500 252.09%

621.43%

Buyback
High-Tech:

Jan-00

112.40%

NASDAQ 80.94%

31.46%

Buyback
Health & Bio-tech:

Dec-01

785.96%

S&P 500 143.22%

642.74%

Over the years, we’ve made money on some of the biggest, most well-known companies in this country, and on some smaller high-fliers, too. We buy throughout all industries -- retailers, restaurants, drug companies, high tech, airlines, oil companies, financials, insurers, dot coms. The common thread in all of our investment recommendations has been that they all were buying back their own shares, and ultimately reducing total shares outstanding.

At The Buyback Letter, we take companies that announce buybacks and analyze them more rigorously than they've ever been analyzed before, to separate the wheat from the chaff. Then we recommend stocks based on the profiles for each portfolio. Each month in the newsletter, we offer you buy, sell or hold advice on all our guided portfolios, so that you, too, can beat the market using The Buyback Strategy.